Improved clothes-pin



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` I Letters Patent No. A104,720,dated June 28, 1870.

',-IMPROVED Gnomes-PIN.

` `'I'.'Iu Schedule referred to inthese Letters Patent and making im of the same v To all whomiit 'nitty concern:

Beitknown that l, GEORGE K. FARRING'ION, of

Alcatraz Island, eount-yof *San Francisco, State vot' California, have` invented an Improved Clothes-'Pin and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, reference bef ters ofreference marked thereon. y I

The nature `of my invention yconsists in providing a spool or axis, upon which the two arms of the pin op- .e-rate.` V.An elastic hand splaced aroundthe pin below'the spool, which holds the twoyarmsiu place, and

object which thepiu is imparts` the` necessary holding: force upon the line or A i caused to grasp. In the ih'awingf Y Figure 1 is a. plano a clothes-pin embodying my improvement;

Figure 2" is a sectionalelevatiou of the same. Figures 3, 4, 5, and 6 are details.

. Likeletters refer to like parts. 4 f

"lo enable others skilled in the art or science to V'which it most nearly appertains to make and use my invention, Iwill 'j proceed to describe its construction and operation. ,y y. A represents the two arms of the pin, which are cut away'to forni concavfities at the sidesdd to receive the spool or-.roller y The ljaws of the pin are also cut away at ce, to form a more secure graspupon the line.

drawing and to the let- It willhc observed thatthe two arms of the pinare precisely alike, so that they may be nsedupon each sideat will. rlhis construction is especially advantageous in case of the fracture of one of the arms,

for another may be easily inserted to supply its place.'

I make a groove, j', around the clamp, in which a rubber band, C, of' suiiicient strength, is' placed, which keeps the lips of the pin together.

The spool or roller is provided with ilanges to prey vent lateral movement of the arms.

j By this device a. cheap and effective clamp or pin is had, that cannot be too easily removed from the line or object which it is caused to grasp, as is the case with the ordinary piu, and allow the renovated linen to become. soiled by falling to the ground. -Having thus described my invention,

That I claim,--and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

vIn' a clothes-pin, of substantially the described con-V struction, 'the detachable roller B, as described, for the purpose set forth. A

Intestimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal. i i

- GEO. K. FARRINGTON. [n s.]

W'itnesses:

C. W. M. SMITH, E. V; SUTTER. 

